Former American Ninja Warrior Contestant Documents Her Family’s Rescue From Hurricane Harvey

Lisa Eicher, who is a former contestant on NBC’s American Ninja Warrior documented her family being rescued as floodwaters engulfed her home near Houston in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey. Her family along with their pig and three-legged-dog were saved by rescuers.
A massive truck full of emergency rescue services personnel arrived in a massive truck in front of her home in Conroe, Texas, on the morning of August 28. Her home which is raised about 10-feet above the ground to protect it from floods from a nearby lake, but the storm caused water to climb to their front steps. Neither Eicher or her husband Joey, thought it would rise this fast. Firefighters called out to the family over the sound of the roaring waters, and Eicher and her husband immediately gathered up their four childre, Sevy, 13, Archie, 13, Ace, 9, and Radko, 3 as well as their three-legged dog, Pip, and 80-pound pig, Penny, to prepare them for evacuation. “I don’t get too panicked ever, but I was definitely nervous for my kids, I knew it would be scary for them, so I tried to make it seem like it was something fun, and they followed my lead. We were literally swimming and carrying them, we couldn’t even touch the ground,” Eicher said in a statement regarding the rescue mission. Check out all the pictures and videos below!